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The above note is courtesy of the Kitchenpants! tasting committee. Make this stuffing and you, too, could receive such reviews. The Ingredients: 3 Cups Cremini Mushrooms – Large Dice/Slice and omit the stems. 4 Sweet Italian Chicken Sausages – If you can, get these from the meat counter. You can use regular pork sausage, but chicken sausage tastes the same, and has a lot less fat in it.* 2 Cups Chopped Onion 3 Cloves of Garlic – Finely Chopped 1/2 Cup […]

You know what’s great about stuffed mushrooms? The possibilities are endless. Really. You can stuff a mushroom with just about anything. You can prepare stuffed mushrooms as an easy appetizer (stuff early, bake, and voila – gourmet!) or as a meal. This recipe produces a very hearty mushroom, so it’s more to a meal than an appetizer. The Ingredients: Portobello Mushrooms – As many as you like. The ingredients for this recipe will stuff 6 medium or 4 large mushrooms. […]

I am so going to be written out of the will for this one. This is a risk that I am willing to take, however. Dear readers, I am here to save you and those with whom you dine from flavorless, lumpy, cold mashed potatoes. Alas, these are the mashed potatoes that I remember from my youth. Good grief were they awful! (Really, because I am going to be excommunicated anyway, I might as well tell you the truth.) A holiday weekend is upon us and many of you will […]

I die a little inside every time I see a can of green beans. I grew up on canned green beans. Well, let’s be clear: I didn’t really grow up on them because I flat-out refused to eat them, but they were present on the table throughout my childhood. I just don’t understand them: Why would anyone want to take a perfectly crisp, delicious vegetable and turn it into blanched mush in a can? And the smell? The smell! Thankfully, […]

Not to make you self-conscious, but I can smell the tiniest bit of garlic from a mile away. True story. That Lean Cuisine that you ate for lunch? I smell it. Did you have Chinese for dinner last night? Oh yes, yes you did. Bruschetta? I am about to pass out from the odor. I have a love-hate relationship with garlic. I appreciate it for all of its noble deeds in flavoring, but the departing fragrance that oozes from the […]